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Switching the primary mechanism from a radical to a nonradical pathway in electrocatalytic ozonation by onsite alternating anode and cathode

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 457, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.141340

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Iron cathode; Electrocatalytic ozonation; Ibuprofen; Reactive oxygen species; Mechanism

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In this study, an electrocatalytic ozonation (ECO) system called ECO-Fe-cathode was developed, which achieved higher degradation efficiency of pollutants compared to the ECO-Fe-anode system. The primary reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the ECO-Fe-cathode system was found to be singlet oxygen (O-1(2)), while hydroxyl radicals ((OH)-O-center dot) were the primary ROS in the ECO-Fe-anode system. This research provides a fundamental breakthrough in designing efficient and harmless ECO systems for wastewater treatment.
Concurrently elevating the degradation efficiency of pollutants and realizing the reduction of iron sludge in Fe -based catalytic ozonation is important but still challenging. Herein, we developed an electrocatalytic ozonation (ECO) system with iron plate cathode and graphite felt anode (ECO-Fe-cathode), which was free from added chemical reagents. Unlike the iron plate as a sacrificial anode in the ECO (ECO-Fe-anode) system, this delicately designed system shows a much higher degradation rate of ibuprofen (k(obs) = 1.490 min(-1)) than that of the ECO-Fe-anode system (k(obs) = 0.345 min(-1)). Simultaneously, the effluent was totally limpid without the corrosion of iron plates and the formation of iron sludge in the ECO-Fe-cathode system. Unexpectedly, the generation of singlet oxygen (O-1(2)) which is indirectly generated by the single-electron transfer derived from superoxide ion (O-2(center dot-)) is the primary reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the ECO-Fe-cathode system, which is different from the ECO-Fe-anode system with hydroxyl radicals ((OH)-O-center dot). Moreover, linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) was applied to reveal the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance of the iron plate and graphite felt, and the results showed that graphite felt as anode has better electrocatalytic performance. The electrochemical analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculation revealed that ozone adsorbed on the iron plate surface is more conducive to facilitating and triggering subsequent reactions. Finally, the different degradation pathways of ibuprofen in both systems were proposed. This work represents a fundamental breakthrough toward the design of an efficient and harmless ECO system for wastewater treatment.

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